The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-03-17

will be greater this year than ever before.
The rush Is expected to begin early in
April
The issue of the standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ending
March 5, was s3l3,7l4 The issue during the
corresponding week last year was $50.
The shipment of fractional silver coin dur
Ing February amount to $SSl. .Ss9
The total value Of the exports Of domestic
breadstuffs during the month Of February,
1887, amounted to Sl1,ss1, ,446, as against
$40. l05, Isl for the same time in 1886, and for
40, against ss2, 46l, sS5 for corresponding
period in 1886.
At Chicago, March Sth, at the funeral Of
the wife Of the anarchist Neebe, socialists
worked themselves into high state Of
the law. The Arbeiter Zeitung declares
that Mrs. Neebe had died from a broken
heart caused by the conviction of her hus-
band, and treats courts and police with
characteristic abuse.
According to Washington dispatch
Mrs. Senator Sabin will remain in Wash
ington, d. c., several weeks yet, the Sena
tor is in New York arranging his business
matters After they have been settled to
his satisfaction and be is getting on the
upper side of his old troubles he will return
there and accompany his wife home. Mrs.
Murphy and Miss Hutchins will 60 with
them.
The wife Of Senator Beck of Kentucky,
died Sunday evening at Washington. Friday
during q carriage drive she took cold, infia-
mdtiOn Of the bowels resulted and death
was swift visitor. Her maiden name was
Tn~ rfSl.x -
great niece of George Washington and his
nearest living descendant. Born at Auburn,
Va. in 1925, she married Senator Beck, at
Lexington, KY. February 5, 1s4S. A SON
and daughtee survive her. Her remains
were taxed to Lexington for burial.
The funeral of Mother Angela, late
Superior of the Sisters Of the Holy Cross Of
the United States, and founder of numerous
educational institutions, took place at St
Mary, near South Bend, Ind, Sunday
morning. After solemn requiem mass q
panegyric was delivered by Bishop Gilmour
Of Cleveland. The obsequies were attended
by as many members of the community al
could be assembled and by. numerous
persons from various parts of the country
The interment was at st. Mary's academy
In Lawrence county Kentucky, Samuel
Smith, aged sixteen, who had some Difficult
q
| armed himself with a revolver and went
over to Hammond's, following hlm into the
house. Han mond then reached for his rife
hut Smith fired and killed him. HammOnd's
| wife, boy and girl attacked the murderer
| but he fatally wounded Mrs. Hammond, and
as the children tried to escape he felled them
| with balls Thinking he had killed them al
| he fled to the mountains, and has not beer
caught. Mrs. Hammond will die, and the
children may not recover.
| The death on March sth, at Nassau, New
Providence, of pneumonia, of Capt. Jas b
Eads is announced. Capt. Eads, was 9,
years OF age and born at Lawrenceburg
Ind. He took to river life while young and
at 10 was q steamboat clerk. Having Q
taste for engineering, he made it his pro
fession and became quite q celebrity fOl
his device of the first iron clads built il
this country which were SO famed durins
| the civil war, on the Mississippi river; fol
the steel arch bridge at st. Louis, and th,
jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi. HI
was the author Of Eads-Tehauntepec shiI
railway canal scheme, which, by the fav
orable consideration Of Congress is in tn
nature OF a national project, though n,
appropriation was passed to promote it.